Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2011/12/15
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]A very moving testimony this one is Phil. Your BW is extremely powerful too. I remember this last photo in the book, the self portrait against the tiles as when you first posted it and I wrote to you off list. I DO hate wars, this one was not yours but you served ideals and country without failing and I admire you for this. I'm glad it is now officially over and your fellow citizens are back. Your book is now 100% part of history, and an excellently composed and presented one. Thank you also for the last words: every person in any nation deserves peace, forever. I wish you you the best of what the photographic future may bring to you. Philippe, really moved by your present to a better world Le 15 d?c. 11 ? 20:42, Phil Forrest a ?crit : > As many here know, I was an independent duty combat photographer in > the > US Navy attached to NMCB-4 (Hoorah Seabees!) from 2003-2005. In August > of 2004 I deployed with the 'Bees to Fallujah, Iraq and worked to show > the infrastructure work the battalion was doing. We worked with the > deployed battalions of the 1st Marine Division as well as US Army > combat engineers among others. I was in-country from August, 2004 > until > the first week of January, 2005. > > This last few months I have been working on compiling a book of photos > that I took with my Leicas while there (my work camera was a Nikon > D2h.) It's finally done and I'm putting this out to hopefully generate > a buzz to get a sense of the viability of doing a first print run of > at > least 30 copies. As the book is 166 pages, the single-print cost on > Blurb.com is prohibitive for the would-be buyer and I don't want to > price the book out of reach. > > So here it is: > http://issuu.com/phil_forrest/docs/ > fallujah_a_photographers_perspective > > Feel free to let me know what you think of it and next week I think > I'm going to begin taking orders. > > Thanks all! > Phil Forrest > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information